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Name: Travellin' Man
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Subject: RE: Don Was interview
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015
Time: 8:21:51 PM
Remote Address: 71.171.31.126
Message ID: 294456
Parent ID: 294450
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RE: Don Was interview

I enjoyed that interview. Thank you for posting it, JF. Was seems like an upbeat, enthusiastic ray of light who loves music and is very likable. Perhaps that is the key to him rubbing shoulders with so many legends of Rock. Yet I am not crazy about the overall results of his producing Stones albums in the past. The production on ABB and Live Licks is downright poor. On all the Stones albums he produced he has Jagger very high in the mix. His production worked part of the time - 'Stripped' and 'Voodoo Lounge', but not so much on albums like B2B. To me the first thing to understand about The Stones is they are a Guitar band. You have to let the music tell as much of the story, or more, than Jagger for a Stones song to reach it's potential. All the best of The Stones greatest hits and their greatest albums allows the music to be as high or higher than Jagger in the mix. Jagger is way down in the mix on most of Exile. Listen to Gimme Shelter, JJF, Satisfaction etc and other greats like Respectable, and Bitch. The music is powerful and high in the mix. Now if he produced Saint Of Me then he got it right that time.

Some great stories in that interview but his taste in music is certainly different than mine. He thinks a lot of Keith's 'How Can I Stop' and believes a condensed version of Bridges To Babylon and Voodoo Lounge would "absolutely hold up" to Let It Bleed and other older Stones albums??????!!!!!! I don't see that at all!

I know ther is more to producing an album than simply getting the mix right, but Man! That IS the most important part.

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